Digest authentication does not work if the url contains characters which has to be encoded in the path

If you access an url like /webservice/publication/demo/search/field-section:2+AND+meta-orderby:"creationDate+descending"/ with digest authentication, it will fail with:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:842)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.auth.digest.RequestDigest.newInstance(RequestDigest.java:164)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.auth.DigestAuthenticatorStrategy.prepare(DigestAuthenticatorStrategy.java:56)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.auth.DigestAuthenticatorStrategy.prepare(DigestAuthenticatorStrategy.java:36)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.auth.DefaultAuthenticator.prepareAuthentication(DefaultAuthenticator.java:46)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.auth.DefaultAuthenticator.preparePreemptiveAuthentication(DefaultAuthenticator.java:67)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.resolver.AbstractResponseResolver.resolve(AbstractResponseResolver.java:65)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.cache.HTTPCache.resolveWithHeadRewrite(HTTPCache.java:240)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.cache.HTTPCache.handleResolve(HTTPCache.java:192)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.cache.HTTPCache.unconditionalResolve(HTTPCache.java:185)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.cache.HTTPCache.getFromStorage(HTTPCache.java:163)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.cache.HTTPCache.doRequest(HTTPCache.java:142)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.cache.HTTPCache.execute(HTTPCache.java:120)
at org.codehaus.httpcache4j.cache.HTTPCache.doCachedRequest(HTTPCache.java:101)
at com.escenic.client.webservice.WebClient.executeMethod(WebClient.java:169)
at com.escenic.client.webservice.WebClient.doGet(WebClient.java:270)
at com.escenic.client.webservice.AbstractClient.read(AbstractClient.java:196)
at com.escenic.client.webservice.AbstractClient.read(AbstractClient.java:179)
at com.escenic.client.webservice.AbstractClient.read(AbstractClient.java:175)
at com.escenic.client.search.OpenSearchPager.doSearch(OpenSearchPager.java:92)
at com.escenic.client.search.OpenSearchPager.initialize(OpenSearchPager.java:53)
at com.escenic.studio.core.tasks.SearchTask.doInBackground(SearchTask.java:70)
at com.escenic.studio.core.tasks.SearchTask.doInBackground(SearchTask.java:32)
at com.escenic.studio.core.StudioTask$RobustTask.doInBackground(StudioTask.java:393)
at javax.swing.SwingWorker$1.call(SwingWorker.java:277)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at javax.swing.SwingWorker.run(SwingWorker.java:316)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 69: /webservice/publication/demo/search/field-section:2+AND+meta-orderby:"creationDate+descending"/
at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2809)
at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:2982)
at java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3066)
at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3024)
at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:578)
at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:840)
... 30 more

It is caused by going from URI object to String by using getPath() and back to URI. getPath decodes the string, which will then fail in URI.create. Using getRawPath instead will fix this.